“The Financial Jigsaw” has been serialised here and is replaced by this weekly “Letter from Great Britain.” NOTE – If anyone would like an electronic copy of the complete book, I should be pleased to email a free PDF on request to: [email protected].
In my book I predicted that economic growth had ended in the early 2000s. Our ruling Elites knows this very well and population growth is making it much worse. This could well be the strategy behind their manic drive into the Covid scamdemic and transition to the climate crisis agenda because they know full well that fossil fuels and global resources are unable to offer a continuation of the illusionary ‘wealth’ of the Western World and their associated luxurious life styles.
Their answer is to engineer a global economic depression together with elimination of ‘useless eaters’ and a Great Reset within a new economic order. It has to be quick and catastrophic because they are running out of time – hence UN Agenda 2030. They have not been slow in publishing their plans – you only have to view the WEF website without even reading between the lines.
Gail Tverberg has an excellent article about how all this is unfolding and, as an actuary, she is uniquely qualified to get down to the nuts and bolts. “Any modeler who tries to take into account the fact that resources deplete and the overall population keeps rising will quickly come to the conclusion that, at some point, every economy will have to collapse. This has been known for a very long time. Back in 1957, Admiral Hyman Rickover of the US Navy said,
Surplus energy provides the material foundation for civilized living – a comfortable and tasteful home instead of a bare shelter; attractive clothing instead of mere covering to keep warm; appetizing food instead of anything that suffices to appease hunger. For it is an unpleasant fact that according to our best estimates, total fossil fuel reserves recoverable at not over twice today’s unit cost, are likely to run out at some time between the years 2000 and 2050, if present standards of living and population growth rates are taken into account.
In 2021, it looks as if this problem is starting to hit us. But no one (since Jimmy Carter, who was not re-elected) has dared tell the general public. Instead, accrual accounting with more and more debt is used in financial statements, including GDP statements. Actuaries put together Social Security funding estimates as if the resources to provide the promised benefits will really be there. Climate change models are prepared as if business as usual can go on for the next hundred years. Everything published by the mainstream media is based on the underlying assumption that we will have no problems other than climate change for the next 100 years.
President Biden’s abrupt pull-out from Afghanistan reflects a reality that increasingly has to take place in the world. The US needs to start pulling back because there are too many people and not enough inexpensive-to-extract resources to fulfill all of the commitments that the US has made. As mentioned earlier, there are a number of obstacles to success in Afghanistan. Thus, it is a good place to start.
With the need to pull back, there is a much higher level of conflict, both within and between countries. The big issue becomes who, or what, is going to be “voted off the island” next. Is it the elderly or the poor; the military or the oversized US medical establishment; university education for a large share of students or classroom teaching for young children?
We don’t seem to have a good way out of our current predicament. This seems to be what is behind all of the recent internet censorship. Renewables and nuclear require fossil fuel energy for their production and maintenance. The powers that be don’t want anyone to know that nearly all of the “happily ever after using renewables” stories we hear are based on wishful thinking.” https://ourfiniteworld.com/2021/08/30/the-afghanistan-fiasco-and-todays-high-level-of-conflict-reflect-an-energy-problem/ This is all partly speculation but Gail’s evidence might explain a lot of what’s going on under the covers.
BACK in AFGHANISTAN – what is not being explained in the MSM is the vast amount of materiel that has been left in the hands of the Taliban. Is this just another FUBAR or perhaps there is more to it? After all, how difficult it would have been to destroy most of the valuable military equipment before leaving it to the enemy? This is America’s Dunkirk.
“Estimates of the trove’s value range from $70 billion to $90 billion. The stockpile likely includes 80,000 vehicles, including 4,700 late-model Humvees, 600,000 weapons of various sorts, 162,643 pieces of communications equipment, more than 200 aircraft, and 16,000 pieces of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance equipment, including late-model drones. Especially worrisome are the loss of night-vision equipment, 20,000-plus grenades, and 1,400 grenade launchers, as well as more than 7,000 machine guns—the perfect equipment for jihadist terror operations and asymmetrical street fighting.
We can look at this disaster in a number of depressing ways. One would be to compare this giveaway to military aid given to Israel over the last 70 years, which more or less has amounted to about an aggregate $100 billion. In other words, in one fell swoop, the Pentagon deposited into Taliban hands about 80 percent of all the military aid that we’ve ever given to Israel since the founding of the Jewish state. In terms of tactical and operational capability, the Taliban may now be the best-equipped terrorist force in Asia and the Middle East.
Assume that for the next quarter-century, Afghanistan will become not just the world’s training haven for Islamic terrorists, but an international, no-questions-asked, cash-on-the-barrel arms market for anti-Western terrorist cliques.” AND what of the future as the world sees the global policeman collapse into obscurity having been defeated by a motley group of goat herders?
“The Chinese are debating now whether to ramp up the assault rhetoric against Taiwan, as more Chinese voices conclude that Biden would support the Taiwanese in meager fashion, as he did U.S. contractors and Afghan interpreters. The Russians are pondering which exposed NATO country or which former Soviet republic might be probed and dissected—in expectation of a tough-guy Biden Corn-Pop lecture but not much else. Kim Jong-un is considering replaying his old role of rocket man, as he calibrates the Biden responses to more missiles launched in Japanese air or water space.
Watch Iran especially. The theocracy believes this is the most opportune time in 20 years to announce that it is or will soon be nuclear, to unleash Hezbollah, and to step up global terrorist operations on the assumption that Biden will bow his head and declare “We do not forgive; we do not forget” and then retire for an early nap.” Whilst Britain is licking its wounds: https://amgreatness.com/2021/08/29/our-afghan-nightmare-tanks-for-nothing/
AND PERHAPS Ghana et al have something to teach us about freedom and liberty. As the Anglo/American Empire collapses into a heap of moral depravity, this article attacks the new laws against the LGBTQXYZ community.
“A recently proposed bill on “sexual rights” and “family values” in Ghana is a case study in extreme cruelty. Ghanaian MPs are considering legislation that is so onerous it beggars belief. And I do not say this lightly. Russia, Nigeria, Uganda and Hungary have all passed odious laws in recent years that discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. Ghana’s proposed legislation takes bad parts from all of these and adds some.”
However, unbeknown to the authors, they are supporting our stand for liberty and freedom by stating this: “This proposed law tramples on the most fundamental human rights. It is an affront to dignity, privacy and non-discrimination. It is an assault on freedoms of speech, expression, association, and assembly.”
You can’t have it both ways – perhaps they should tell Fauci and his clique that this applies equally to their fraudulent experimental gene therapy dictates and totalitarian attacks on the unvaxxed. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2021-08-09-homophobic-ghanaian-family-values-bill
THUS IN Covidland, Boris and his cabal of dysfunctional MPs (omitting 40 odd sensible ones) are continuing their policy of Vaxx Passports for the end of this month. If he survives the organised pushback at a vote in Parliament then we can expect some spectacular protests to erupt in October.
“It beggars belief that the Government wouldn’t, at the very least, allow entry to large indoor venues based on a negative lateral flow test – or an antibody certificate, given how much more effective natural immunity is at preventing infection than vaccine-induced immunity. In addition, the Government hasn’t disclosed how it will address the problem of waning vaccine-induced immunity. Will vaccine passports expire if a double-jabbed person hasn’t had a booster jab? No doubt Boris and his Health Secretary will claim this incomprehensible, brain-dead decision is based on “the Science”. We will need to see the rules later: https://dailysceptic.org/2021/08/31/government-presses-on-with-vaccine-passport-plans/
CONTINUING MY THEME of crucial labour shortages in Britain caused by masses reviewing their work/life balance due to the scamdemic, here is the inside reality of what is happening today, and why a return to the ‘old normal’ is not possible, because workers are saying NO to wage slavery and the daily grind of corporate exploitation.
“For decades, large swathes of the labour market have been run on the assumption that there will always be sufficient people prepared to work for precious little. But here and across the world, as parts of the economy have been shut down and furlough schemes have given people pause for thought, the idea that they need not stay in jobs that are exploitative and morale-sapping has evidently caught on.
In the UK, meanwhile, Brexit remains a disastrous and chaotic project – but, among its endless and unpredictable consequences, leaving the EU has cut off employers’ access to a pool of people who were too often exploitable. Time has thereby been called on one of the ways that our dysfunctional labour market was prevented from imploding.” Worth reading in full: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/30/britain-labour-shortage
AND it’s not only transport and hospitality where wages are too low to attract workers, now we have a crisis in the care home sector where mandatory jabs come into effect in November. When are the government going to realise that they can’t push people around and not suffer the consequences? A living example of: “We will not Comply”
“Three-quarters of care home operators are reporting an increase in staff quitting since April, the key reasons being a desire for less stress and for higher pay, and to avoid mandatory vaccination, which comes into effect on 11 November. Last night the health worker union Unison called on ministers to immediately scrap the “no jab, no job” policy, warning they are “sleepwalking into disaster”.
41,000 care home workers in England have still received no vaccine at all, according to the latest NHS data released on Thursday, and 18%, or 87,000, are not yet double-vaccinated. In the last recorded week, only 3,459 carers received their second dose, which means less than half of the remaining staff will have been vaccinated by the deadline, unless the rate picks up.” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/04/care-workers-in-england-leaving
BREXIT: Plans for post-Brexit checks on some goods entering Northern Ireland have been suspended indefinitely by the UK after negotiations with the EU reached a stalemate. Grace periods designed to ease the transition into new trading arrangements and checks on the island of Ireland have twice been extended as part of diplomatic wrangling labelled “the sausage wars”. Now, there’s been a fresh extension with no new deadline set for the completion of talks.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/06/uk-and-eu-extend-post-brexit-grace-period
VACCINE ADVERSE REACTIONS: “The UK Medicine Regulator has responded to a Freedom of Information request demanding to know how many deaths have occurred in the past 20 years due to all vaccines, and their response has revealed that there have been four times as many deaths in just eight months due to the Covid-19 injections.” Read the full details: https://theexpose.uk/2021/09/06/breaking-f-o-i-request-reveals-there-have-been-4-times-as-many-deaths-in-8-months-due-to-the-covid-19-vaccines-than-there-have-been-due-to-all-other-vaccines-since-the-year-2001/
To be continued next week.
The lack of cheap labor will be replaced with the multitudes of poor pouring across the border here in the US. The Chamber of Commerce has been pushing this for years. They are mostly nice people, don’t get me wrong, very hard working but their ability to do certain work is restricted due to thinking skills, a lack of understanding and being able to understand. It is as simple as that. I sort of believe that the people in charge actually think that the education system is going to correct that problem, blind to the fact that it has not worked with the blacks and they have had about sixty years of experience to get that right.
The effect of labor loss will be felt in areas of expertise, which is now occuring here in the US.
And this effect can be found in something as simple as a sales desk at a plumbing company. I experienced that just last week.
Keep up the good work with your articles. It helps this old sixty-six year brain of mine to try to think on something other than a fake virus.
Ginger, when you say, “They are mostly nice people, don’t get me wrong, very hard working but their ability to do certain work is restricted due to thinking skills, a lack of understanding and being able to understand”, are you talking about migrants or the US Chamber of Commerce? I think either would apply.
I doubt the ‘nice people’ speil. Many are jihadists and many more welfare leeches. These people want to suck off our welfare teat not help us by taking jobs ‘Americans don’t want’. Of course our uncontrollable government doesn’t care as long as they vote democrat and overwhelm white people by numbers.
I laughed, but the Chamber of Commerce staff I ever had dealings with reminded me of used car salesmen, as those used car salesmen one would find on Bragg Boulevard in Fayetteville NC.
Austrian Peter, your virtue signalling about the travails of the alphabet queers will not remove you from the list of people to be “re-educated”or deleted. Believe me. (((They)))have a long list of people in both categories.
I am too old to be ‘re-educated’ – I guess I will be ‘deleted’ in due course anyway!
A bit of a curate’s egg, this article. Some good things; some silly things. Peter mentions climate change. I hope he is talking about the natural climate change that will likely take us into a cooling period rather than the hysterical climate change garbage pushed by the lefties and greenies. And why the quotes from The Guardian, the propaganda rag of the Deep State? Any journalist writing a line such as “In the UK, meanwhile, Brexit remains a disastrous and chaotic project” is not worth listening too. We all knew Brexit would change and complicate economic matters, but the whole venture as a political one: to get as far as possible out of the clutches of the despotic EU. Finally, good for Brits leaving their crappy, exploitative jobs, but that means they go on the dole and become slaves of the state instead of private enterprise. Not good.
Noted and quite right to make these points Steve. I try to put alternative angles. I am hoping that people will find worthwhile work in their own businesses as they move away from wage-slavery but this is yet to be seen. There is no doubt that the climate will always oscillate over time and I agree that the hysteria about the green agenda is just another fake narrative.
Of all the MSM here the Guardian claims to be independent of influence from the globalists and they do cover some good stuff about our government. I do however have to chose carefully. They have always supported the EU as a matter of policy. We are no doubt paying a price for Brexit with labour shortages which will take time to correct.
Another problem with the Afghan debacle is that our military hardware has top secret components in much of it. I wonder how much will eventually find its way to the Chinese to undermine us.
Only what doesn’t make its way to Moscow.
The Chinese made most of it in the first place.
Interesting post, Peter. Gail Tverberg’s blog is excellent and very well worth a read. As an actuary, her analysis of energy is as good as I have ever found.
As Covid mania gathers pace. Here on the West Coast of Canada the fear and hatred of the nonvaccinated are fueled by the mainstream press. The largest (and oldest) newspaper on Vancouver Island, The Times Colonist has a daily ‘letters to the editor’ section that is filled with hate (fear) & hysterical writings by residents of the Island. Calls for fines, imprisonment, and various punishments for those who chose not to accept the jab appear daily.
The latest letter suggests that the nonvaccinated should be made to wear ‘signs’ that they have not taken the jab.
It reminds me of the National Socialists in Germany.
Here is a sample of letters in today’s press: https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/letters/letters-sept-11-vast-differences-in-those-needing-health-care-stop-playing-games-with-virus-1.24357144
Phew, they have certainly stoked the fear narrative and thank you for the link. The herd effect cannot be avoided unfortunately so perhaps wearing a yellow star can be carried with pride?
Are you effing serious????
Everyone should start wearing a gold star. Put what is being done right in their face.
Here in BC;
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/vaccinecard.html
WILL NOT COMPLY.